This Just In: The loss of author/pioneer E. Lynn Harris

It is with deepest sympathy that we inform you that acclaimed author, educator, and pioneer of black gay fiction, Everette Harris Lynn, has passed. His publicist informed the Associated Press. He was 54.

Harris was born on June 20, 1955 in Flint, Michigan and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. His novels included Invisible Life, Just As I Am, And This Too Shall Pass, Not A Day Goes By, A Love of My Own, Basketball Jones, to name a few.

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